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that's a shoddy metric though. I'm not an aircraft pilot or a lover of 90s teletext, measuring efficiency in terms of number of buttons per square inch makes no
by Barrin92 4y ago
that's a shoddy metric though. I'm not an aircraft pilot or a lover of 90s teletext, measuring efficiency in terms of number of buttons per square inch makes no sense on a medium that has infinite scrolling surface.
Empty space is very much a good thing, we crammed things together in the past because we had no other choice, not because it was very legible.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoIt's not just about the visible buttons (and scrolling is not a "free action"), keyboard shortcut support has been going down.
- ben_w 4y agoEven merely finite scroll can cause UI issues. Today, with invisible scroll bars, it's not at all unreasonable for someone to be oblivious to the offscreen content; but even making them always-visible isn't enough, as my dad demonstrated by taking 3 years of home internet to realise Google search results were not just limited to the first three that just happened to be at the top of the page. He'd retired a few years earlier, having been working as a software developer since approximately when that became a new idea in the UK private sector, back when punched cards wasn't a cute retro reconstruction.